{"id":416,"date":"2007-02-05T14:36:11","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T18:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/?p=416"},"modified":"2016-07-12T11:51:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T17:51:52","slug":"news-from-the-dead-zone-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/news-from-the-dead-zone-56\/","title":{"rendered":"News From The Dead Zone #56"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Gunslinger Born<\/em> is almost here! Marvel announced today that due to the tremendous popularity of the variant cover program, each issue of The Gunslinger Born<\/em> will feature a sketch cover, as chosen by Jae Lee, and an all-new variant cover by one of the top artists in the industry. Issue #2 will feature a variant cover by David Finch (New Avengers<\/em>, Moon Knight<\/em>) and a sketch cover by Jae Lee (shown here). Stay tuned to Marvel.com for more on who the other variant cover artists will be. Jae Lee takes the T.M.I. quiz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“We have more than exceeded our initial forecast numbers. With the first issue looking to surpass 200,000 units in sales, this is by far the biggest selling non-super hero comic event in recent memory,” said Dan Buckley, president and publisher of Marvel Entertainment. At present, newsstands, including Barnes & Noble and Borders, can’t carry the comic. Foreign translated version deals are being worked through..<\/p>\n

“These comics aren’t junk food; they’re more like delicacies,” King said. “Sushi for the mind, if you like. You have to teach yourself how to read ‘adult comics,’ which are actually comic\/novel hybrids. and even then you have to give yourself to the experience, which means accepting the idea that you’ll need to work a bit as you do with any good novel. This is, in a sense, an ‘origin’ story, and interesting in its own right These are not just retellings of books that have already been written. The books serve as a launching pad\u2014and a resource center, I suppose\u2014but the flight is into brand new territory. People curious about the Crimson King will find things to interest them here. And give them some nightmares, I hope. They\u2014Marvel, and especially Robin Furth, who worked with me on the later [“Tower”] books, keeping the proliferating details straight\u2014broke out a simple story line that might be called Teenage Gunslingers and How They Grew<\/em>,” King said. “The basis was Wizard and Glass<\/em>, the only novel in the series that comes close to being a stand-alone. I modified their outline, and have had a chance to tinker with the dialogue and narration of each issue before it gets graven in stone. I don’t tell anyone what or how to draw, though. I know my limitations.”<\/p>\n

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